Valencia is a 2000 Lambda Literary Award-winning[1] novel by Michelle Tea. It is an autobiographical novel detailing the narrator's experiences in San Francisco's queer subculture. It includes experimentation with consensual sado-masochism after the author meets Petra, a knife-wielder; as well as Willa, a tormented poet; and Iris, a young butch who escaped from a repressive southern upbringing to San Francisco.[2]
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| Author | Michelle Tea |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Seal Press |
Publication date | 2000 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 216 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | 1-58005-238-X |
Film adaptation edit
During 2011, Valencia was adapted into an arthouse film, with twenty-one different lesbian and queer directors enlisted to film each of the book's twenty-one chapters within a series of short film segments. They include Cheryl Dunye, Courtney Trouble, trans film maker Amos Mac, documentarian Hilary Goldberg and others.[3] The film premiered at the Frameline Film Festival in May 2013.[4]
References edit
- ^ "13th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". 2001-07-10.
- ^ Michelle Tea: Valencia: Seattle: Seal Press: 2001: back cover
- ^ Kristin Smith: "Valencia Reimagined" Curve: November 2011: 74-75
- ^ "Film Based On Michelle Tea's 'Valencia' Premiering At Frameline" Archived 2013-06-07 at the Wayback Machine. SFist, May 9, 2013.
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